| I have recently plunged into my first 12 gallon reef and bought a package from a dealer here in Florida. I started with 12 lbs of live sand and 12 lbs of LR.The tank is an eclipse with an in tank PS and a small powerhead for water movement. Cycled for 2 weeks and the levels seemed to normalize(ammonia, nitrite and nitrate). I then went back and got the second half which included 12 more lbs of LR and the 24 blue legs, 6 turbo snails, 2 sea cucumbers, 2 peppermint shrimp, 1 serpent star. The 1 shrimp and the serpent star didn't last 2 days. The ammonia spiked again and the nitrates really spiked at about 10-20! I scrambled and made water changes but the levels came right back up. What the heck is going on?! Help would be greatly appreciated.
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garrett harte
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